It's time to do a quick roundup of what African entrepreneurs know that you don't know.
DEMO Africa ended on Friday, but that won't stop us from running our remaining interviews with some of the participants.
Big congratulations go to two of our...

We're running this blog post today to look back at the BizSpark EU Summit which we hosted in the UK. The startups we featured there were in the running for awards at the Summit. If you were following along, you may remember that one of the teams from...

Startup outlook in Brazil
Being an entrepreneur in Brazil is a lesson in how to accept excitement and the roller coaster of dismay, elation, frustration and success. Despite the fact that there’s a lot of local problems (most of them well known...

For the Russian speakers out there, here's a very handy series on how BizSpark members AtContent tweaked and worked with Windows Azure to get their company up and running . People who don't read Cyrillic can translate in Bing and enjoy the useful experience...

Lucas Carlson is a magician and developer who lost ten years worth of projects when his server melted down. His solution is a little bit of cloud magic.
He came up with AppFog , a Microsoft BizSpark company, which reduces time and helps developers...

Have you heard of Rockstart Accelerator? Whoa, boy. Why not? On November 1, one of the most successful Accelerators -- by number of startups receiving funding after the demo day -- will be opening its applications for another year of awesome.
from...

BizSpark has grown so large that it now covers over 100 countries and about 50,000 startups. We have recently started a BizSpark Ambassador series , which takes you into the minds of startuppers around the world, and helps you get a view to what is actually...

If you are going to tinker with robotics, mobile app building and anything that a strong developer toolkit could produce, you are going to want to do it in Estonia, according to this TechCrunch report . Young people who get involved with these projects...

Dave McLure's 500 startups announced their new class today , and since 9 of those 33 teams are members are BizSpark teams, we have reason to celebrate. Percentage-wise, Microsoft BizSpark members made up nearly 30% of those teams.
Here's a rundown...

We'll be at DEMO Fall 2012 , to share the stories of startups and bring you close to the innovation happening in the disruptive technology scene. You can follow along for updates on this blog, or visit our main site for a live video feed that will be...

The Windows 8 launch is right around the corner and recently Microsoft and New York Tech Meetup teamed up to host a workshop and hackathon @WeWork Lounge in NYC.
There were some really cool demos there with Purpella winning the hackathon with their...

At DEMO Fall, there were a few trends, but culture as an app was the one that caught my idea. One of the companies tackling startups through culture is DreamWare, helmed by a sociologist and an anthropologist.
This post was written by Microsoft BizSpark...

When Microsoft first offered me a job at Microsoft to help them manage 50,000 startups that had joined Microsoft BizSpark for the free software and the community support, I had to admit, I wasn't sure what to think.
but I talked to the woman who would...

Death is an easy metaphor, because it's so huge, and it commands attention. And tech reporting uses it. A lot. But what if you, like, really die? What perspective does that bring you?
This post is written by Douglas Crets, the Community Manager...

We work and live in a startup culture that prizes money, funding, success over things like failure, which is actually one of the most important things that can happen to a founder or a developer.
This blog post was written by Douglas Crets, Community...

DEMO Africa ended on Friday, but that won't stop us from running our remaining interviews with some of the participants.
Before we do that, big congratulations go to two of our Microsoft BizSpark members, SASA Africa and Flowgear, who both came away...

Helping students to become the next generation of start-ups is a huge area of focus within Microsoft right now. So our new lead for start-ups and student projects for Microsoft in Sweden – Therese Thorstorp – is a great fit, not just because...

Get firsthand information from one of South and East Africa's up and coming mobile solutions, Kuza Mobile founder Pieter Nel . this guy helped create Africa's largest social network, and now he's on to a mobile e-commerce solution that will help entrepreneurs...

To introduce our next Microsoft Ambassador, we turn to Singapore. Vishnu Prasad works for SGTechCamps, based in Singapore, and he is one of the twenty ambassadors we have around the world, who are looking in on the entrepreneurs and developers in his...

This BizSpark company just finished a term with Y-Combinator and is actively working with large clients in the media space as they scale to 1 million customers. We asked their CEO, Michael Fitzgerald, a few questions about their experience as a team running...

A startup founder in Bulgaria is trying to make it easier for you to transfer information from ID and other public record documents to paperwork, so that you don't make costly mistakes that waste your time, and get bureaucrats all in a kerfluffle.
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Andrew Sullivan is right about the death of print . Newsweek print may be a dead beast in the muck - and for the good. What it means for digital, though, is extremely important. Digital media is about delivering people to people, rather than delivering...

Tech entrepreneurship just got sexy.
Fresh from the Web Summit in Dublin (or not-so-fresh given the myriad parties that went alongside DWS), it's time to reflect on the state of entrepreneurship in Europe. And it’s in a fine state.
This post...

I've never been to Dar Es Salaam, but I imagine that methodologies that spark innovation there will be just as useful in Germany or in Amsterdam. This is especially true when the broadly-based idea that makes virtually all startups alike is that they...